About

Tom Wiggans is an accomplished FOH sound engineer. Hailing from the English Lake District, he spent much of his youth climbing and walking in the fells and was always drawn to the remote beauty of the Langstrath valley. While studying Electronic Engineering at the University of Birmingham he became interested in mixing live sound, largely to the detriment of his academic studies, but somehow emerged with a BEng degree. In the intervening 30 years, he has travelled the world mixing artists including: UB40, Wet Wet Wet, Squeeze, Paul Heaton, The Cranberries, Travis, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bloc Party, and Amy Macdonald. Langstrath is still an area he regularly returns to, to ponder audio problems and solutions and so, is the logical name and inspiration for our endeavour.

Dr Barry Cook is an electronic engineer, academic, and audiophile with over 25 years’ experience in satellite and spacecraft design. After a combined Electronics and Computer Science degree he researched computer vision and became a lecturer/senior lecturer at several UK Universities. Leaving academia for industry, he concentrated on demanding Space applications with a range of test equipment now found in many international laboratories. He also designed high-reliability systems for Spacecraft; some already in-orbit, some awaiting launch. Recent projects include parts of the "Flying Laptop" (for the Stuttgart Small Satellite Program), and the "PLATO Project" (for the European Space Agency). He has a reputation for finding solutions to challenging requirements, often developing novel circuitry, and is named inventor on 15 patents.